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Confirmed with Neue Gedichte von Heinrich Heine, Zehnte Auflage, Hamburg, Hoffmann und Campe, 1871, page 29.

Note: Moór's setting has a typo in the score in stanza 2, line 3, word 1 ("mir")

Text Authorship:

• by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Neue Gedichte, in Neuer Frühling, no. 23 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Homer Newton Bartlett (1845 - 1920), "Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert", op. 236, published 1911 [ high voice, piano, and violin obbligato ], also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
• by Max Joseph Beer (1851 - 1908), "Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert", op. 4 (Drei Lieder und Gesänge mit Pianoforte) no. a, published [1874] [ voice and piano ], Wien: V. Kratochwill ; Leipzig: R. Forberg [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nicolae Bretan (1887 - 1968), "Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert", published 198-? [ medium voice and piano ], from Lieder zu Gedichten von Heinrich Heine, Nikolaus Lenau, Rainer Maria Rilke, also set in English, also set in Romanian (Română) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hans Guido, Freiherr von Bülow (1830 - 1894), "Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert", op. 1 (Sechs Gedichte von Heine und Sternau) no. 2, published 1853 [ soprano or tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by George Howard Clutsam (1866 - 1951), "Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert", op. 1 (Six Songs) no. 1, published 1891 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Berthold Damcke (1812 - 1875), "Das Abbild", op. 11 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 3, published 1838 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Zdenko Antonín Václav Fibich (1850 - 1900), "Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert", H. 165 (1872), missing [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Franz (1815 - 1892), "Wie des Mondes Abbild", op. 6 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 2, published 1846 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Whistling [sung text not yet checked]
• by W. Gollmick , "Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Philip Herschkowitz (1906 - 1989), "Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert", 1932 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Arno Kleffel (1840 - 1913), "Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert", op. 20 (Zwölf Lieder), Heft 1 no. 2, published 1876 [ voice and piano ], Dresden, Hoffarth [sung text not yet checked]
• by Max Kowalski (1882 - 1956), "Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert", 1937, from Fünf Heine-Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Adolph Bernhard Marx (1795 - 1866), "Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert", op. 14 (Ein Frühlingsspiel in drei mal drei Gedichten), Heft 2 no. 3, published 1845 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Emanuel Moór (1863 - 1931), "Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert", op. 13 (Sechzehn Lieder) no. 13, published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Mainz, Schott; dedicated to 'Meinem Bruder Willi' ('My brother Willi') [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Siegfried Ochs (1858 - 1929), "Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert", op. 6 (Drei Lieder für 1 Stimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1883 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Paez [sung text not yet checked]
• by August von Othegraven (1864 - 1946), "Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert", from Liederkreis [23 Lieder], no. 21, unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
• by Mario van Overeem (1872 - 1946), "Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert", from Neuer Frühling: 44 Lieder, no. 23 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Henri Wilhelm Petri (1856 - 1914), "Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert", op. 6 (Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1884 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Sulzer [sung text not yet checked]
• by Martin Plüddemann (1854 - 1897), "Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert", published 1884 [ medium voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 5, München, Schmid & Janke [sung text not yet checked]
• by Sokolowsky , "Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir (1852 - 1924), "Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert", op. 7 (Six Songs of Heine : Lieder-Album II) no. 2, published 1877 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903), "Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert", 1880 [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Homer Newton Bartlett.
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• Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Nicolae Bretan.
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• Also set in English, a translation by Eugene Field (1850 - 1895) , "A Heine love song" ; composed by Graziella Ridgway Robertson.
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• Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Frank E. Sawyer.
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• Also set in Romanian (Română), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Nicolae Bretan.
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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Boris Sergeyevich Maizel'.
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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksandr Nikolayevich Yakhontov (1797 - 1856) , no title ; composed by Sofya Aleksandrovna Zybina.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Just as the moon's reflection trembles", copyright ©
• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Comme le reflet de la lune tremble", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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